Mal estar docente e condições de trabalho: identificação de problemas e estratégias de enfrentamento

Abstract

The purpose of this article was to raise reflections on how working conditions affect teachers' health. Therefore, the following question was asked: how do teachers who work in the municipal education system of Feira de Santana perceive the influence of working conditions on their health? The objective was to analyze the perspective of teachers about their working conditions and their influence on the perception of health. It was a qualitative research. The semi-structured interview was adopted as a data production instrument. The subjects were four professors, pedagogues, with public exams. In the results, it was concluded that the teachers reported situations that impact on the perception of health, since the teaching work involves multiple interactions, with students, family members, co-workers, school management, municipal secretariat and actions at the municipal administration level and that directly interfere in the social and economic (de)valuation of work and the teaching worker that demand actions, attitudes at the personal level, actions at the collective level by teachers in the school environment and institutional issues that contribute to coping with the situations that impact in the perception of health/disease and that can contribute to the feeling of malaise in the teaching profession.